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Students may apply online (http://uct.ac.za/apply/applications/forms/). In order to apply online a working email address and a South African identity number will be needed, or, in case of an international applicant, the passport number.

Students who are unable to apply online, you may submit a paper application by printing the forms from the link, and sending them to the Admissions office.Tel: (021) 650 2128, Fax: (021) 650 5189/3736 or email: admissions@uct.ac.za

Students are referred to the Faculty Handbook obtainable from The Faculty Office or www.uct.ac.za/apply/handbooks

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Important information

Department of Civil Engineering: http://www.civil.uct.ac.za/

Civil Engineering Postgraduate Officer: Ms Rowén Geswindt Tel: 021-650 3499 or Email: Rowen.Geswindt@uct.ac.za

Engineering Faculty Office: http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za/

Tel: 021- 650 9111 or Email: ebe-faculty@uct.ac.za

The Department of Civil Engineering offers a number of special postgraduate courses, some of which are scheduled to facilitate attendance by practising engineers from industry.

Information on the offered research programmes, course work and potential supervisors are specific to respective departmental research fields, which are:

Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Geotechnical Engineering

Structural Engineering and Materials Transport Studies

Urban Infrastructure Design and Management Water Quality Engineering

Students can consider Masters Degree studies doing only research, doing 2/3 research and 1/3 course work or doing 1/3 research and 2/3 course work. Different courses are offered annually, biennially or triennially.

International Academic Programmes Office: https://www.uct.ac.za/about/iapo/overview/welcome/

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Student Housing: http://www.accommodation.uct.ac.za/

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Information and Communication Technology Services:http://www.icts.uct.ac.za/

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Postgraduate Funding: http://www.uct.ac.za/apply/funding/postgraduate/applications

Tel: 021- 650 3622 or Email: pgfunding@uct.ac.za

END5035Z: Management of Transport Supply and Demand This course aims to develop an advanced understanding of transport systems management. Topics include: the rationale for the management of transport systems through alternatives to large scale infrastructure provision, transport impact assessment and access management as a means of managing the impacts of new land use development on transport systems, road space management as a means of prioritising public transport vehicles, 'transport system management' as a means of managing transport supply; 'travel demand management' as a means of managing travel behaviour; and the use of 'intelligent transport systems' in supply and demand management.END5038Z: Integrated Land Use-Transport PlanningThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of the integration of land use planning and transport planning process. Topics include: theoretical perspectives on the relationship between transport systems and urban activity systems, co-evolution of transport systems and urban form, sustainable transport and the problem of 'automobile dependent' cities, planning paradigms and rationales for public intervention into land use and transport systems, legislative, institutional and financial frameworks for land use and transport planning in South Africa, conceptual framing and practical application of approaches to integrated land use-transport planning in the South African context and local and international case studies and experiences.END5039Z: Non-Motorised TransportationThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of planning and design of non-motorised transportation infrastructure. Topics include: current SA realities and the importance of NMT travel modes; planning frameworks for NMT infrastructure improvements and network management; methods of site and network analysis, and approaches to modelling and simulation; footway and pathway design; the design of pdeestrian precints, low cost bicycke supply and promotion; cycleway and bicycle parking design and pedestrian and bicycle crossing facilities.END5042Z: Sustainable Urban SystemsThis transdisciplinary course aims to explore the need for, and ways of, undertaking 'restructuring', including the following: the imperative of sustainable development, general systems theory with respect to the interactions between industrial/urban systems and ecological systems, physical constraints based on energy and mass balances and thermodynamics, the concept of urban metabolism, case studies of industrial and urban systems restructuring in practice, and insight from the literature on disciplinary specialisation and interaction as it relates to sustainable development.END5043Z: Community DevelopmentThis course aims to explore the involvement of community groups in the provision of infrastructure in the context of a withdrawal of the State from infrastructure development in many cities of the South. The main thrust of this module is to track how current international community development themes shape practice to provide a context for community development as an ideal. Various themes, including governance and livelihoods, the relationship between infrastructure and development, community-driven processes in the context of the “Right to the City” and data-collection techniques, including participatory tools for getting and analyzing information are dealt with at length in this module. END5047Z: Transport Demand Analysis & Project Assessment This course aims to develop an understanding of transport demand analysis and project assessment. Topics include: travel data collection and survey design, data processing and analysis, the link between methodological approaches to transport analysis and the analytical questions raised by different policy environments, theoretical and philosophical backgrounds of assessment and evaluation methods, and techniques for the assessment and evaluation of urban transport proposals. END5048Z: Transport Modelling This course aims to develop an advanced understanding of principles and skills in working with these models. Topics include: transport modelling types and scales, theory of travel demand modelling, including the four-step transport model (i.e. trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and traffic assignment), output analysis, land use – transport interaction models, as well as theory of traffic flow dynamics, including capacity assessment, LOS assessment, shockwave analysis, dynamic traffic management and elementary traffic control design. The course ends with a discussion about the link between models and the analytical questions raised by different policy environments. END5070Z: Public Transport Policy and Regulation This course aims to develop an understanding of public passenger transport system policy analysis an regulation. Topics include: legislative and planning frameworks, public transport policy, paratransit reform, public transport system regulation and competition and quality of service.END5071Z: Public Transport System Design & Operation ManagementThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of public passenger transport system design and operations management. Topics include: public transport system concepts, public transport system design, public transport system operations management, integrated fare structures and system maintenance.

CIV5065Z: Urban Renewal This course aims to develop an advanced understanding of urban renewal context and policy. Urban transformation is an international phenomenon caused by a range of factors including urbanisation, migration trends, globalisation and poverty. The process of urban change does not affect all cities equally or in the same manner, but the overall trend is towards greater polarisation and lack of balance between concentrations of wealth and poverty within and between cities. CIV5067Z: Advanced Infrastructure ManagementThe module exposes students to the concepts of municipal infrastructure management. These concepts include the context in which Infrastructure Management Planning is done, the process of Infrastructure Management Planning and the techniques required to prepare an Infrastructure Management Plan.CIV5100F: Plate and Shell StructuresThis course aims to be a comprehensive treatment of plate and shell theories, and their application to the solution of various problmes i n structural engineeing. The course will cover plates subjected to bending and twisting (slope, curvature, twist, bending movements, transverse shears and twisting moments); the derivation of the bending equation for transversally loaded plates (rectangular and polar co-ordinates), solutions for rectangular plates and circular plates, practical applications, introduction to shell structures, the membrane hypothesis for shells; the membrane theory of axisymmetrically loaded shells of revolution.CIV5107Z: Integrated Urban Water Management This course aims to develop an integrated view of the management of water in the urban environment with a view to providing appropriate sustainable solutions for the growing water crisis facing southern African cities. This means simultaneously considering the entire urban water cycle (e.g. water supply, sewage, drainage) in the context of the “triple bottom line” (economic, environmental, social). This course is aimed at all professionals (consultants, managers, councillors) who have an interest in urban water management. CIV5108Z: Advanced Mechanics of MaterialsThis advanced course aims to introduce students to physical mechanisms of deformation of common construction materials, contiuum mechanics and its main mathematical tool, tensor analysis; non-linear continuum material behaviour, including visco-elasticity, plasticity and modelling, failure and fracture characteristics and modelling of these effects.CIV5113S: Structural Dynamics with ApplicationsThis course aims to introduce the concepts of structural dynamics and its applications in structural engineering. Topics covered include dynamic equilibrium of structures. Response of a single degree of freedom system to dynamic excitation: free vibration, harmonic loads, impulse loading and general loading. Response of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Free vibrations: mass, damping, and stiffness matrices; rayleigh damping; forced vibrations: modal superposition and step by step methods. Continuous systems. Applications to seismic design of structures, blast and pmact effects on structures and wind engineering.CIV5120Z: Repair & Rehabilitation of Concrete StructuresThis course deals with the repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures and covers the following topics: condition surveys and assessment of deterioration of concrete structures; repair materials and strategies; compatibility aspects; structural requirements and procedures for rehabilitation; durability and repair audits; service life predictions; economics of repair and life-cycle costing; and practical and contractual aspects. Strengthening systems; FRP design and application are also covered.CIV5123Z: Contaminated Land and RemediationThis course aims to create awareness of the ocurrence of and risks posed by contaminants in contaminated sites and remediation issues, and to develop basic engineering skills and knowledge required to identify appropriate remediation methods for contaminated land and waste disposal activites. It covers the problems associated with contaminted lands that arise from the unmanaged release of contaminants into the environment.CIV5124Z: Geosynthetics EngineeringThis course aims to introduce advanced students to the geosynthetics and their applications in the built environment and covers important considerations in the use of geosynthetics to solve civil engineering problems. It includes methods of analysis, design, construction and field monitoring of structures constructed with geosynthetics.CIV5130Z: Water Loss ManagementThis aim of the course is to teach theory and practice of loss management in water distribution systems. The course focuses on the International overview of water losses; water loss components; benchmarking; water loss strategy development; water metering; leak detection; leak repair; pipe refurbishment; pressure management; water demand management; water loss modelling; water effeciency programmes and water loss and policy.

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Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Convenor: Associate Professor Hans Beushausen

Tel: 021-650 5181 / email: Hans.Beushausen@uct.ac.za

Geotechnical EngineeringConvenor: Dr Denis Kalumba

Tel: 021-650 2590 /email: Denis.Kalumba@uct.ac.za

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Structural Engineering and MaterialsConvenor: Dr Sebastian Skatulla

Tel: 021-650 2595 / email:Sebastian.Skatulla@uct.ac.za

Urban Infrastructure Design and Management Convenor: Associate Professor Mark van Ryneveld

Tel: 021-650 2605 / email: Mark.Vanryneveld@uct.ac.za CIV5064Z 14 - 18 Mar

END5042Z 16 - 19 May END5043Z 11 - 15 July CIV5065Z 29 Aug - 02 Sept

Urban Transition in the Global South Sustainable Urban Systems Community Development Urban Renewal Integrated Urban Water Management CIV5107Z 03 - 07 Oct

Water Distribution Systems Convenor: Professor Kobus Van Zyl

Tel: 021-650 2325 / email: Kobus.Vanzyl@uct.ac.za Water Loss Management CIV5130Z 23 - 27 May

CIV5002Z: Structural Concrete Properties and Practice The aims of the course are to provide structural engineers with fundamental and practical knowledge in concrete materials technology; to establish an understanding on modelling and designing concrete properties relevant to structural design, and to create awarenes on chemical and physical characteristics of cementitious construction materials.CIV5006Z: Advanced Structural Concrete EngineerningThe aims of the course are to provide and understanding of structural failure mechanisms of reinforced concrete slabs, to present analysis and design methods for reinforced concrete slabs at the ultimate limit state, and to introduce design principles for composite concrete-to-concrete structures.CIV5032Z: Principles of Wastewater Treatment & Wastewater Characterisation This advanced course includes: objectives of wastewater treatment; wastewater chemical and physical characterisation; measurement of energy, nitrogen and phosphorus in municipal wastewater, effect of settlement and filtration, characterisation of primary sludge for anaerobic digestion, and an overview of unit operations in wastewater treatment.CIV5045Z: The Activated Sludge SystemThis course aims to develop and advanced understanding of the activated sludge system. Topics include: biological process modelling including nitrification; material mass balances; reactor kinetics; biological process kinetic equations of ordinary heterotropic organism and autotrophic nitrifier organism growth and endogenous respiration; development of the steady state activated sludge model; application to design, selection of sludge age, impact of primary settling, sewage sludge disposal. Aeration is also covered.CIV5046Z: Sedimentation in Water & Wastewater Treatment The advanced course includes classes of settling; factors affecting settling tanks; column test for water-treatment solids settling characterisation; applications to sizing settling tanks; effect of flocculation; flux theory and application in sizing wastewater treatment plant settling tanks; measures of activated sludge settleability and relationships between them; comparison of flux theory with tother design procedures, and computational fluid dynamics modelling of settling tanks. CIV5047Z: Sewage Sludge Treatment The advanced course includes an introduction to sewage sludge reuse and disposal guidelines in South Africa; characterisation of primary and waste activated sludge in the context of mass balances over the entire wastewater treatment plant; sludge thickening with gravity sedimentation and flotation; development and validation of steady state aerobic digestion model for primary and waste activated sludge stabilisation and application to design and analysis including oxygen transfer and sludge thickening considerations; kinetics, stoichiometry and weak acid/base chemistry of anaerobic digestion; development, validation and application of steady state anaerobic digestion model, generation of sludge treatment liquors and the impact of their recirculation of effluent quality, and nutrient (N and P) reduction in sludge treatment liquors.CIV5048Z: Steady State Design of Biological Nutrient Removal SystemsThis advanced course includes ensuring nitrification; capacity, kinetics of dentrification, development of the steady state nitrification model (ND); effect of ND on reactor volume, effluent alkalinity and oxygen demand; the role of readily biodegradable (RB) and slowly diodegradable (SB) organics; denitrification potential; effect of the influent TKN/COD ratio on unaerated mass fraction, N removal and effluent quality; calculation of inter-reactor recycles rations for design and analysis of pre-, post- and combined denitrification systems. Characteristics of polyphosphate accumalating organisms; development and use of biological excess phosphorus removal steady state model; design and analysis of NDBEPR of systems, chemical P precipitation and its effect on BEPR; nocel applications; the impact of membrane separation and external nitrification on NDBEPR design.CIV5064Z: Urban Transitions in the Global South This course aims to provide students with a wide-ranging introduction to the dynamics of differential urbanisation processes in the global South with an eye on understanding the role of infrastructure in advancing more sustainable urban forms and patterns. The overarching learning objectives are to understand the nature, drivers and consequences of the second urban transition from a sustainability outcomes in different contexts, settings and scales.

2016 Postgraduate Course Information

Waste Water EngineeringConvenor: Professor George Ekama

Tel: 021-650 2585/ email: George.Ekama@uct.ac.zaIntroduction to Waste Water Treatment Sustainable CIV5032Z 08 - 18 FebActivate Sludge System CIV5045Z 25 Feb - 14 Mar

CIV5047Z 31 Mar - 18 Apr CIV5046Z 28 Apr - 19 May CIV5050Z 02 - 13 June

Sewage Sludge Treatment Separation Processes WWTP Design Steady State BNR Design CIV5048Z 01 Aug - 05 Sept

Transport Modelling END5048Z 25 - 29 JanNon - Motorised Transportation END5039Z 22 - 26 FebIntegrated Land Use-Transport Planning END5038Z 11 - 15 April Transport Demand Analysis & Project Assessment END5047Z 09 - 13 May Public Transport Policy & Regulation END5070Z 15 - 19 AugPublic Transport System Design & Management END5071Z 10 - 14 OctManagement of Transport Supply & Demand END5035Z 07 - 11 Nov

Transport Studies Convenor: Associate Professor Roger Behrens

Tel: 021-650 4757 / email: Roger.Behrens@uct.ac.za

15 Feb - 10 June CIV5108Z 15 Feb - 10 June MEC5063Z 15 Feb - 10 June MEC5064Z

Structural Concrete Properties & PracticeAdvanced Mechanics of Materials An introduction to Finite Elements Finite Element Analysis Plate and Shell Structures

CIV5126Z 29 Feb - 04 Mar CIV5125Z 07 - 11 Mar

Slope Stability Lateral Earth Supports Contaminated Land and RemediationGeosynthetics Engineering

CIV5123Z 20 - 24 June

CIV5067Z 06 - 10 June CIV5113Z 01 - 05 Aug

Advanced Infrastructure Management Structural Dynamics with Applications Project Planning and ImplementationRepair & Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures

CON5016Z 29 Mar - 01 Apr

CIV5100Z 31 Oct - 04 Nov

CIV5002Z TBC

CIV5120Z 17 - 21 Oct

CIV5124Z 17 - 21 Oct